Hothouse construction.



No. 70|,6I0. Patented lu-ne 3, |902.

H. PLADECK. HOTHUUSE-CUNSTRUCTION.

' (Application led Mar. 27, 1902.) (No Model.)

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UNITED STATES 4PATENT OFFICE.

HUGO PLADECK, OF MIDDLE VILLAGE, NEW YORK.

HOTHOUSE CONSTRUCTION.

SPECIFICATION formingpartof Letters Patent l1\T o. 701,610, dated June 3, 190.2. Application led March 27, 1902. Serial No. 100,213. (No model.)

To all whom, it may concer-7e:

Be it known that I, HUGO PLADECK, a citizen of the United States,residing at Middle Village, Long Island, in the county of Queens and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Hothouse Construction, of which the following is a full and complete specification, such as will enable those skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to the structure of hothouses; and the object thereof is to provide an improvement in structures of this class whereby such structures are made strong and durable and are properly drained, these results being accomplished without additional expense.

The invention is fully disclosed in the following speciiication, of which the accompanying drawings form a part, in which the separate parts of my improvement are designated by the same reference characters in each of the views, and in which- Figure lis a perspective View of the framework of a hothouse made according to my invention; Fig. 2, a corresponding view of a detail thereof, and Fig. 3 an end View of one of the side-wall frames which I employ.

This invention relates particularly to the framework or supports of a hothouse, and for this reason only such framework or supports are shown, the roof and side and end walls being omitted from the drawings forming part of thisspecification. Y

In the praeticevof my invention and in the construction of the side wallsof'a hothouse and alsoin the construction of central or interior longitudinal walls or supports, if the latter be necessary, I employ posts a, consisting,r of ordinary angle-irons, the lower ends of which are preferably bent outwardly, as shown at a2, and the said lower en d of these posts are sunk in a cement bed h, as shown in Fig. 3, the earth being indicated at b2 in In Fig. 1 of the drawings I have shown a structure involving two similar parallel parts, three rows of posts being employed, together with two ridgedvpoles d and Vthree ofthe troughs c, thus making a double structure, and the rafters e are connected at their upper endswith the ridged poles and at their lower ends with'one side of the trough or troughs c, and this connection may be made in any desired manner. It will be understood that the roofs are placed upon'the ridged poles and rafters in the usual manner and are not shown for the reason that 'the same form no part of this invention, and in practice the ,side and end walls are connected with the post compound of the angleirons din the usual manner, said side and end walls being also not shown in this case. Itwill be appar- 'ent that the hothouse made in this manner may be of any desired length and in any desired width, and in practice I also prefer to place beneath the trough or troughs c small trough f, which may be connected with the angular portions avof the post members a in any desired manner, and the object of which is to catch anyleakage that may pass through the corresponding trough or through the bottom thereof. By means of this Vconstruction I amenabled to form a strong hothouse-frame ata comparatively slight cost, and my inven tion is not limited tothe exact form of the posts composed of the angle-irons a, herein described, nor to the method of setting the same in the ground, and other changes in and modifications of the construction herein shown and described may be made without departing from the spirit of my invention or sacrificing its advantages.

Having fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secureby Letters Patent, isy l l. In a hothouse structure; sideand end wall posts, each of which is composed-of two bars of angle-iron, the upper vends of which are bent and crossed and secured together to form a trough-support, and the lower ends of which are set into the ground, substantially as shown and described.

2. A hothouse structure, the supports of which consist of posts composed of angleirons, the lower ends of which are set into ICO the ground and the upper ends of which are my invention I have signed my name, in presbent and crossed at an angle and secured toence of the subscribing witnesses, this 26th gether Where crossed, so as to form a troughday of March, 1902.

support and a trough placed therein and form- HUGO PLADECK. 5 ing a. support for the rafters of the roof, sub- Witnesses:

stantially as shown and described. F. A. STEWART,

In testimony that I claim the foregoing ns F. F. TELLER. 

